Roofing-bracket.



No. 825,051. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906. I

A. P. HENDERSON;

ROOFING BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAILZ, 1905. RENEWED MAY 31,1906.

THE NORRIS PETERS co., WASHINGTON, n c.

ALONZO P. HENDERSON, OF HANOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

ROOFI NG-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed March 2, 19 05. Renewed May 31, 1906. Serial No. 319.432.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALoNZo P. HENDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Hanover, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Roofing-Brackets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a scaffoldingbracket adapted for use in shingling or slating the roof of a house. tion having a folding member, on which the staging or scaffolding is supported, and a flexible adjustable folding member, by means of which the device is secured to nails driven in the roof-boards. This supporting member is so constructed that it can be readily detached from the nails to which it is secured after the nails have been covered by shingles and is also so constructed that it may be in serted underneath any shingles and hooked onto any nails beneath the shingles if the roof is to be re-covered.

My improved bracket can be fastened to any already-shingled roof without driving any nails through the shingles.

Other features of my invention will be more fully hereinafter described, andthen pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of my improved bracket applied to the roof. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof with the part supporting the staging removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the locking device for the strut and staging-support. Fig. 4 is a front view thereof, and Fig. 5 is a detail of the strut.

The bracket comprises a body member 3, adapted to lie on the roof being shingled or slated, a folding member to support the staging-boards 4, and also a sheet-metal arm5,by means of which the device is secured to the roof.

The body portion 3 is made wide enough to form a firm support for the device when resting on the roof, and the attaching-arm 5 is provided with one or more hooks 6, adapted to hook over nails 7, driven in the roofingboards. Said arm 5 is formed with the inclined edges 8, which meet straight edges 9, extending longitudinally of the arm, said pair of edges forming a Vshaped slot at the rear of a hook 6.

The outer end of each hook is pointed, as at 10, to assist in attaching the bracket to nails It comprises abodypor-.

already driven in the roofing-boards, but covered by shingles or slate, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

Pivoted to the body portion 3 is a support- 13, the foot 15 of which is adapted to engage any one of a series of sockets 14, formed in the body portion 3.

By adjusting the strut 13 into one or the other of the sockets 14 the arm 12 may be brought into a level position regardless of the pitch of the roof. In order to lock the strut 13 in the socket 14, the foot of the strut is provided with lateral wings 17, which are adapting-arm 12, which has pivoted thereto a strut V ed to enter the transverse portion 18 of the V slot 14, said wings when in place engaging under the top plate 19, and thus preventing the st rut from being disengaged from the slot.

16 designates a locking member slidably mounted on the strut, the nose 190 of which is adapted to enter the slot 14 behind the foot of the strut, thereby preventing said foot from being moved upwardly into position to admit of the wings 17 passing through the lateral portion 18 of the slot.

In using my improved bracket said bracket is placed on the roof, with the body portion 3 resting on the shingled or slated portion of the roof and with the arm 5 extending up over the unshingled part of the roof. Nails 7 are then driven under the hooks 6 to form means to support the bracket. The scaffolding 4 is then put in place on the various brackets thus supported, and the next course of shingles or slate laid, said course obviously covering the arm 5. When several courses have been laid and it is desired to set the brackets farther up on the roof, it is merely necessary to slide the bracket upwardly until the nails 7 have ridden down the inclined portion 8 of the slots into the apex thereof and then withdraw the bracket from said nails. that the bracket may be readily detached from nails which are underneath the shingles and covered up thereby by a simple up-anddown movement of the bracket.

Under some circumstances it may be desirable to attach the bracket to the roof for repair work, and with my improved device this can be readily done by merely inserting the plate 5 under the shingles already laid and hooking the hooks 6 over the nails 7, which have been previously used. The inclined sides of the pointed ends of the hooks act as guides to guide the nails under the It will thus be seen shingles into one of the slots, and after the nail has been guided into the slot a slight lateral movement of the plate causes the hook to engage the nail.

It will be noted that the end 22 of the arm 12 extends some distance beyond the point 21, where it is pivoted to the body 3. When the bracket is placed in position for supporting the staging, as shown in Fi g. 1, this extension of the arm 12 is in position to engage a shingle of the course just above the body 3, and therefore act as a stop to prevent any upward movement of the body 3 sufficient to detach the hooks 6 from the nail 7.

While I have herein illustrated one embodiment of my invention, I do not wish to be limited to the construction shown, as various changes may be made without departing from the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a roofing-bracket, a body portion having a thin plate extending therefrom and provided at its end with a plurality of hooks each having a pointed end, said hooks being arranged so that the back side of one hook forms with the nose of an adjacent hook a throat leading to the space within the latter hook, and a folding arm pivoted to the body portion and adapted to support a staging.

2. In a scaffold-bracket, a body portion adapted to rest on the roof and having in its end a plurality of notches of such a shape as to form hooks, said notches each having a tapering mouth leading to a throat with parallel walls, which throat is formed by the back side of one hook and the front side of the said body portion having one or more T- shaped sockets into which the foot of the strut may rest, and a lock slidably mounted on the rear side of the strut and adapted to enter one of the sockets in the body portion thereby to prevent the disengagement of the strut therefrom.

4. In a scaffold-bracket, a body portion adapted to rest on the roof, a plate projecting from the body portion and provided with hooks to engage nails in the roof, an arm to support the staging, said arm being pi'votally connected to the body portion, and a strut pivotally connected to the arm, said arm having an extension, as 22, adapted to engage a shingle or slate and thereby revent upward movement of the bracket on the roof sufi'iciently to disengage the hooks from the supporting-nails. K

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALONZO P. HENDERSON. I/Vitnesses:

LoUIs C. SMITH, MARGARETfA. DUNN. 

